1898.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 237 



of the celebrated commercial city Amsterdam). Trojel says in his 

 dedication that he has sought to be brief in the narrative of adven- 

 tures, not diffuse (wytlopig), and that he has translated the story 

 from the Latin Historia, and mentions Velser's edition. Penon's 

 attention, after the publication of his work, was called to this rare 

 book by Mr. A. van Wessem, of Tiel (a judge of that city), a pos- 

 sessor of a copy. 



Hungarian Versions. 



An Hungarian version of the sixteenth century I have seen 

 at the British Museum, but as my attainments in Magyar are of 

 the same extent as De Quincey's in the Malay, I am unable to 

 establish the history of it. I quote the title: "Szepj'eles Historia 

 egy Apollonius nevu Kiraly Fiurol^ Mikeppen o egy Mefhiek, meg. 

 fejtefe miatt el-bujdosvan a tengeren valo hajo kazasban minden 

 javait el-vesz tette, es halasz ruhaban Altistrates Kiral ynak udvaraba 

 jutott : Annak utanna sok viszontagsaginak vegen, a szerencsenek 

 jobb szarnyara fel vetetvin, Kiraly allapottyahoz illo csendesseggel 

 megkoronaztatott. Most ujjobban ki-nyomtattatott es rendes rhyth- 

 musokkal meg-ekesitetett. Budan. Nyomtat. Katalin Landererne 

 Betuivel."^ On the reverse of the title is, "Adagio Virorum Sapi- 

 entium. In via virtute nulla est via; tamen itur per aspera ad pros- 

 pera; post nubila phoebus." 



A copy in the Hungarian National Museum in Buda-Pesth is said, 

 in the last stanza of the work, to have been written in 1588. The 

 copy lacks a title-page. It is bound up with another book, and 

 written in the volume are the words '* Irta Bogati F. Miklos nyom. 

 Kolozsvar, 1591," that is, written by M. F. Bogati, printed at 

 Kolozsvar, 1591. Miklos Fazekas Bogathi was a Unitarian 

 preacher who died 1592 (Singer gives from Simonyi an account of 

 his life and writings). A second Miklos (Nicholas) Bogathi, some- 

 times confounded with the first, died in 1603. It is not certain 

 that the work in question was written by Bogathi ; only it is bound 



^A beautiful and excellent history of Apollonius, a king's son ; how he, after 

 solving a riddle, wandered away ; how in sailing about on the ocean he lost all 

 his possessions, and in sailor's clothes arrived at the court of King Altistrates, At 

 the end of his many adventures, having been taken up on a better wing of for- 

 tune, he was crowned with a silence befitting his stale as a king. Now, again, 

 reprinted and embellished with regular rhyme, in Buda. Printed with Catalme 

 Landerer's types. 



